Deadly ditch: Biker’s family sues state after deadly motorcycle crash
Pennsylvania’s transportation agency dug a ditch and didn’t tell anyone, and it cost a motorcyclist her life, the victim’s family says in a new civil lawsuit.

Leslie Gingrich, a mother of three who was training to get her commercial driver’s license, was riding her Harley to class along a narrow, twisty state highway in early June when she hit a ditch left by a PennDOT crew weeks earlier. She had no warning and no chance to avoid it, her family says. YOU CAN READ THE ENTIRE STORY ON THE LOCAL NEWSPAPER’S WEBSITE